10 things commercial real estate investors should watch.

10 things commercial real estate investors should watch for in 2010.

• Credit to remain tight.
• Bank foreclosures to increase as more commercial loans come due.
• Consumer spending to remain relatively sluggish, despite the upcoming holiday season.
• Unemployment to continue to increase for a couple more quarters, followed by a jobless recovery.
• Vacancy rates for all major commercial real estate sectors to continue to increase throughout most of 2010.
• Capitalization rates continue to move slightly.
• Commercial property sale prices and rents to remain mostly flat or decline further.
• Commercial real estate construction to remain slow.
• Sales volume and transactions to start to increase.
• More entrepreneurs and opportunistic funds looking more closely at real estate.

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